U.S. Military and Police Assistance Programs
NACLA first published detailed information on U.S. military and police assistance programs abroad in the November 1970 issue of the Newsletter under the heading, "The Mercenarization of the...
...1-12.25 U.S...
...gCredits only since 1962...
...3 e Value of "excess" defense articles delivered b 1,377.7 609.1 4.5 236.9 7.3 2.6 58.3 164.9 22.9 22.5 68.2 21.0 312.1 111.1 20.6 1.1 I s l 11 11 1,~ ~~ ~~ ~~ ~~ ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Funds provided thru "Food for Peace" program 1,511.3 1,285.5 106.8 30.5 597.2 9.4 541.6 212.0 11.3 10.5 Military Assistance ServiceFundedc 8,097.3 8,097.3 8,097.3 =. Total aid 51,220.3 22,068.7 736.7 100.5 3,250.2 716.9 114.8 1,123.2 3,848.5 16.6 59.5 600.0 19.0 (615.9) (2,092.2) 8,097.3 8,435.3 4.0 0.5 2,142.4 1,365.6 47.8 # Israel # #27 U;H*oru, Aaaiafar%^A% - Ship Excess Food for Region & country Grant aid Credits loans items Peace MASF Total Jordan 53.2 - 4.2 - (57.4) . Lebanon 9.0 - - 0.1 - - 9.1 Pakistan 7.8 79.3 - (87.1) Saudi Arabia 35.1 - 0.6 - (35.7) Turkey 2,939.4 - 1 9 3 . 0 e 158.1 110.9 - 3,401.4 United Arab Rep...
...Department of Defense press release, August 13, 1971...
...France...
...89,342 54,551 143,893 Cambodia...
...Japan...
...AFRICA, Total...
...Turkey...
...military missions in Laos and Burma...
...191 1,188 1,379 Saudi Arabia...
...Italy...
...TROOPS OVERSEAS American Soldiers Stationed Abroad, Jan...
...Libya...
...bInclude Laos, Burma...
...Dominican Republic...
...Panama...
...El Salvador...
...Morocco...
...213,465 Number trained Abroad Total number trained 1,363 6,778 126 116 41 5 929 8 138 341 2,832 118 4 420 477 69 1,699 326 17 126 329 20 30,392 54,270 426 2,808 2,248 2,658 847 6,856 1,821 4,374 2,503 4,629 496 529 214 521 1,984 2,593 2,746 4,284 886 1,071 1,654 2,280 60 504 1,389 1,578 202 595 3,379 3,994 3,110 3,148 753 1,040 2,117 5,007 790 1,723 2,767 4,078 105,578 319,043 aSource: U.S...
...EUROPE & CANADA, Total 15,884.5 1,247.8 308.6 278.5 9.9 - 17,729.3 Austria 97.5 47.1 - 2.7 - 147.3 Belgium 1,245.8 7.8 - 7.2 - 1,260.8 Canada - - 13.1 - - 13.1 Denmark 617.9 - 1.2 7.0 - - 626.1 France f 4,153.1 80.4 25.3 96.6 - - 4,355.4 Germany, est f 900.8 - 50.7 0.2 - - 951.7 Italy 2,290.2 153.3 22.7 71.5 - - 2,537.7 Netherlands 1,217.0 2.2 21.3 14.7 - - 1,255.2 Norway 894.1 - 5.9 14.7 - - 914.7 Portugal 319.7 - 8.4 7.9 - - 336.0 Spain 601.2 122.3 47.9 20.1 9.9 - 801.4 United Kingdom f 1,034.5 809.9 - 24.3 - - 1,868.7 Yugoslaviag 693.9 1.5 - 9.2 - - 704.6 Region* 1,818.8 23.3 112.1 2.4 - - 1,956.6 NON-REGIONAL 1,140.5 112.2 - 98.4 - - 1,351.1 aSource: U.S...
...Military Assistance Programs - Combined Totals from All Sources," NACLA Newsletter, April 1971, pp...
...8,729 4,845 13,574 Thailand...
...Sudan...
...Ethiopia...
...Ecuador...
...Arm Now - Pay Later -- U.S...
...Chile...
...Luxembourg...
...Portugal...
...Guinea...
...Cuba (1950-60...
...Incorporates figures for classified countries ** Less than $50,000...
...Netherlands...
...fNo grants since 1965...
...Belgium...
...Sixth Fleet...
...52,000 Total...
...15,479 2,435 17,914 Yemen...
...18,000 Guam...
...2,382 410 6,009 2,553 2,126 33 307 609 1,538 185 626 444 189 393 615 38 287 2,890 933 1,311 WORLDWIDE, Total...
...17-31...
...Peru...
...Dominican Republic...
...Iran...
...Paraguay...
...In order to provide our readers with an advance look at some of the tables and charts that will appear in the new pamphlet, we are including here some of the updated charts on U.S...
...Foreign Personnel Personnel Total Region and country U.S Foreign Total EAST ASIAb HQ, European Command .. Belgium/Luxembourg...
...Total...
...32,000 Navy, offshore...
...58 Total 279 6 1,244 337 1,581 Total...
...Department of Defense, Office of the Assistant Secretary of Defense for International Security Affairs, Military Assistance and Foreign Military Sales Facts (Washington, D.C.: 1971...
...Government for the purchase of American arms through the Foreign Military Sales (FMS) program and by the Export-Import Bank (Eximbank), indefinite loans of U.S...
...Military and Police Assistance Programs - Additional Documentation," NACLA Newsletter, January 1971, pp...
...Spain...
...16,364 5,196 21,560 Classified countriesb .. 1,980 21,837 23,817 NEAR EAST & SOUTH ASIA, Total...
...716 Philippines...
...Abroad trained EAST ASIA, Total...
...Jordan...
...Bolivia...
...Since then, NACLA has received many requests for additional information on this subject as well as corrections and comments on the original data...
...of Region* NEAR EAST AND SOUTH ASIA, Total Afghanistan Ceylon Greece India Iran Iraq Military Assistance Program grant aid 34,856.3 10,494.8 96.0 2,565.4 709.6 81.7 855.1 3,029.7 1.0 434.8 588.8 1,476.3 656.4 6,279.0 4.0 0.2 1,569.7 830.4 46.7 FMS and Eximbank credit for purchases of US arms 3,639.6 990.1 736.7 127.5 34.8 15.6 56.5 19.0 1,001.1 0.3 20.0 504.1 Value of naval vessels delivered 1,738.1 591.9 213.6 175.0 56.7 3.0 132.9 4.6 6.1 631.1 430...
...Nicaragua...
...CSource: Department of State Bulletin, February 22, 1971, p. 226...
...military and police aid.* Now, all of this new material plus new editions of the original documents will be collected in a new NACLA pamphlet, America's Worldwide Military Establishment, to be published in May...
...Greece...
...Saudi Arabia...
...Colombia...
...Panama...
...2,740 731 3,471 Total...
...42,238 8,204 50,442 Afghanistan...
...NEAR EAST & SOUTH ASIA Greece...
...Bolivia...
...Morocco...
...Denmark...
...Senegal...
...3,000 Other countries...
...military activities abroad...
...Nigeria...
...China (Taiwan...
...216,000 FAR EAST & PACIFIC South Korea...
...9,000 Philippine Islands...
...Guatemala...
...372 32 404 Jordan...
...Total...
...29 TRAINING OF FOREIGN MILITARY PERSONNEL Students Trained in the United States and at U.S...
...50,000 GRAND TOTAL...
...8,597 1,719 10,316 Iraq...
...dollars in millions] Region and country GRAND TOTAL EAST ASIA, Total Australia Cambodia China, Rep...
...Colombia...
...bFigures given represent the "utility value" of such items (set by law as 33 percent of acquisition cost...
...Ethiopia...
...Mike Klare *These documents include: "U.S...
...1,000 Total...
...Uruguay...
...Turkey...
...I30 DEPLOYMENT OF U.S...
...NATO Agencies...
...Yugoslavia...
...Information on the new pamphlet itself will appear in a future issue of the Report...
...38 103 17 5 33 6 44 34 137 5 22 1 6 7 40 LATIN AMERICA HQ, Southern Command .. Argentina...
...Spain...
...8,110 2,994 11,104 Vietnam, Rep...
...408 26 434 Indonesia...
...Iran...
...52,592 11,068 63,660 Austria...
...Classified data...
...Honduras...
...Ghana...
...Aid Shapes the Dominican Police," NACLA Newsletter, April 1971, pp...
...Classified countries 393 3,768 3,836 12,600 1,190 8,144 63 4,744 4,049 2,106 6,868 3,719 625 465 22 11 1,430 874 1,742 434 1,219 113 1,553 1,483 609 1,233 148 219 404 5,198 4,710 14,342 1,624 9,363 176 6,297 5,532 2,715 8,101 3,867 844 465 22 Region & country Number trained in U.S...
...781,000 Source: U.S...
...1,035 218 1,253 Syria...
...212 70 282 68 37 105 9 7 16 204 24 228 14 3 17 10 8 18 137 4 141 181 101 282 623 184 807 AFRICA Congo (Kinshasa...
...171,000 Thailand...
...Military Assistance Programs Combined Totals From All Sources, 1946-1970' Includes grants furnished under the Military Assistance Program (MAP), credit provided by the U.S...
...AID Police Programs for Africa and Asia, Newsletter Supplement, August 1971...
...Germany (West...
...Brazil...
...i * iia 995 64 1 MMOMMOM J26 U.S...
...Honduras...
...Netherlands...
...5 - 5 Classified countries c .. 4,189 563 4,752 EUROPE, Total...
...28 0 28 33 6 39 38 7 45 60 30 90 28 5 33 50 6 56 4 1 5 33 2 35 16 2 18 27 3 30 14 3 17 17 2 19 7 1 8 17 3 20 7 4 11 19 5 24 50 3 53 448 83 531 Nigeria...
...Pakistan...
...The response to this initial documentation was tremendous: the original data and accompanying article were translated and published in newspapers and magazines throughout Latin America and elsewhere in the Third World...
...29-31...
...Agency for International Development, Office of Statistics and Reports, U.S...
...15 1 3 3 18 GRAND TOTAL...
...Mexico...
...Overseas Loans and Grants, July 1, 1945 - June 30, 1970 (Washington, D.C., 1971...
...How U.S...
...Military Assistance Command, Vietnam (MACV), Joint U.S...
...AID Police Programs for Latin America, NACLA Newsletter, July-August 1971, pp...
...El Salvador...
...Military Advisory Group, Thailand (JUSMAGTHAI), and covert U.S...
...Brazil...
...stocks, local currencies generated under the "Food for Peace" program (Public Law 480), and funds awarded our allies and mercenaries in Southeast Asia from the regular Department of Defense Appropriation (Military Assistance, Service-Funded - MASF...
...Many people have written us from abroad to say that they were very happy to receive "hard" information on U.S...
...Mali...
...In response to this feedback, we've published several additional documents and related materials on U.S...
...Paraguay...
...21,063 9,374 30,437 Malaysia .225 18 243 Philippines...
...Belgium...
...CInclude Israel, Egypt...
...Upper Volta...
...11,538 2,037 13,575 Iran...
...Spain...
...Antarctica...
...207,000 LATIN AMERICA Panama Canal Zone...
...By fiscal year...
...Italy...
...Denmark...
...Venezuela...
...215 122 337 China, Rep...
...United Kingdom...
...Greenland & Iceland...
...10,000 Seventh Fleet...
...1, 1972 SOUTHEAST ASIA EUROPE South Vietnam...
...Norway...
...Guatemala...
...Venezuela...
...Portugal...
...23 - 23 Turkey...
...Tunisia...
...21,000 West Germany...
...478 12 490 Lebanon...
...Germany...
...Liberia...
...23,878 Argentina...
...56 0 56 8 6 14 8 6 14 8 7 15 33 9 42 HQ, Pacific Command...
...Chile...
...39 - 39 Greece...
...213 57 270 aSource: U.S...
...15 8 7 14 55 3 18 6 14 5 12 7 21 21 76 Korea...
...of Indochina/1946-54d Indonesia Japan Korea Malaysia New Zealand Philippines Singapore Thailand Vietnam, Rep...
...215,000 20,000 9,000 7,000 10,000 3,000 2,000 21,000 287,000 4,000 4,000 3,000 1,700 1,000 1,500 34,800 Total...
...bExcludes the U.S...
...25.9 - 1.0 1.1 - - 28.0 Ecuador 42.9 0.7 10.0 3.4 - - 57.0 E1 Salvador 6.6 - - 0.3 - - 6.9 Guatemala 17.1 0.5 - 1.1 - - 18.7 Haiti (1946-63) 3.2 - 1.1 0.1 4.4 _ J I!11111 fil~ K1.11--~ Ifil IEmC II*wlllllW III Ib I 1/ M | lk/llml - IlV V28 Military Assistance Ship Excess Food for Region & country Grant aid Credits loans items Peace MASF Total Honduras 8.1 - - 0.5 - - 8.6 Jamaica 1.1 - - ** - - 1.1 Mexico 1.8 4.4 4.4 ** - 10.6 Nicaragua 12.8 - - 0.3 - 13.1 Panama 4.0 - - 0.1 - 4.1 Paraguay 9.4 0.2 1.4 0.6 - 11.6 Peru 88.5 20.1 32.8 6.4 - - 147.8 Uruguay 42.3 0.3 0.1 3.2 - 45.9 Venezuela 9.3 85.2 11.3 0.3 - 106.1 Region 15.4 _ - - - - 15.4...
...2,873 414 3,287 Japan...
...6,000 Guantanamo Bay (Cuba...
...19,732 4,088 23,820 Indochina (1950-54...
...Region* 791.3 476.7 - 16.3 - - 1,284.3 AFRICA, Total 279.8 35.6 5.9 16.5 3.9 - 341.7 Congo (Kinshasa) 25.8 - - 1.6 3 9 - 31.3 Ethiopia 152.5 - 5.9 7.7 - 166.1 Ghana 0.2 - - - 0.2 Guinea 0.9 - - 0.9 Liberia 7.3 1.1 - 0.1 8.5 Libya 17.4 - - 0.7 - 18.1 Mali 2.8 - - 0.1 - 2.9 Morocco 37.2 29.7 - 5.0 - - 71.9 Nigeria 1.2 0.3 - - - 1.5 Senegal 2.8 - - ** - 2.8 Sudan 0.7 1.5 - - 2.2 Tunisia 30.3 3.0 - 1.3 - - 34.6 Other nations 0.7 - - ** - - 0.7 LATIN AMERICA, Total 777.7 252.8 200.6 63.1 - 1,294.2 Argentina 44.0 48.6 37.0 1.4 - - 131.0 Bolivia 23.9 - - 1.4 - - 25.3 Brazil 221.0 72.7 57.1 27.6 - - 378.4 Chile 93.9 20.1 29.9 8.0 - - 151.9 Colombia 94.1 - 14.5 5.5 - - 114.1 Costa Rica 1.8 - - **- - 1.8 Cuba (1946-60) 10.6 - - 1.8 - - 12.4 Dominican Rep...
...19-28...
...Costa Rica...
...2 Tunisia...
...30,000 Okinawa...
...Total...
...Other (includes Australia, Azores, Bahrein, Crete, Laos, New Zealand...
...Indonesia...
...5,415 Congo...
...1-31...
...Libya...
...military and police assistance programs abroad in the November 1970 issue of the Newsletter under the heading, "The Mercenarization of the Third World...
...215 2,716 118 4 420 436 64 770 326 17 118 191 20 LATIN AMERICA, Total...
...Military Missions Abroad Authorized personnel strengths of United States Military Assistance Advisory Groups (MAAG's), Military Missions, and Military Groups abroad, as of July 1, 1 9 7 1 a Region and country EUROPE U.S...
...Uruguay...
...News & World Report, January 3, 1972...
...11,000 Puerto Pico...
...Nicaragua...
...France...
...82 113 216 49 10 0 82 0 113 26 242 20 69 6 16 Italy...
...43,000 Japan...
...Liberia...
...Bases Abroad, 1950-70 Number trained Number trained Total number Region & country in U.S...
...Norway...
...United Kingdom...
...eIncludes so-called "Greek-Turkish" aid of Truman Doctrine era...
...13,000 Total...
...OTHER AREAS Canada & Bermuda...
...Cambodia...
...9,643 5,637 15,280 Korea...
...India...
...Peru...
...dRepresents aid to French forces during the Indochina War of Independence...
...Arms Sales to the Third World," NACLA's Latin America Report, January 1972, pp...
...292 - 292 Ceylon...
...Costa Rica...
...Haiti...
...naval vessels, deliveries of military equipment from "excess" U.S...
...Ethiopia...
...Morocco...
...45,000 Taiwan...
...operations in their country--particularly since such information was not available from local sources...
...Figures in parentheses represent unclassified funds only...
Vol. 6 • March 1972 • No. 3
